Cromer was a small fishing village until . . . |
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. . . the arrival of the railways in the 1880s, when it quickly grew into a seaside resort. It had a number of fine hotels along the sea front, but then it went into a decline with the national trend to holidays abroad. Many of its hotels were closed, some demolished, though the splendid Hotel de Paris remains. Some of Cromer's past glory may have faded but the town still has its handsome Victorian pier and fills with visitors as the crowds flock to its fine beaches when summer arrives. In 1933 after Hitler's rise to power, the German physicist Albert Einstein lived for a short time in a cottage on Roughton Heath, just south of Cromer. His visits to the beach at Cromer are thought to have provided the inspiration for the naming of the Philip Glass opera "Einstein on the Beach". In the town, the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul has the tallest tower of any Norfolk parish church. Today it remains the visual centre of the town. Christopher McGregor
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